One Piece Mugiwara (Strawhat) Pirates

Bandai One Piece Catalog Insert

Another anime line that I like very much is One Piece, Its about a group of pirates and their (mis)adventures, its now one of the most popular anime shows in Japan. The manga is also going strong and Luffy the main protagonist has been ranked no.1 three times for Shounen Jump's character popularity polls.

Back in 2002, Smarty toys released a couple of One Piece Merchandise to coincide with Gma7's One Piece airing of the show. Along with these was Bandai's One Piece Action Figures, it was a highly poseable line of 5" action figures with lots of accessories, sadly One piece was not yet known locally, coupled with Smarty's SUPERB pricing scheme, the toys flopped, and the line went on sale, but not after about three years of warming and clogging the pegs..



Anyways, I'm glad I picked up the figs back then, cause right now, these are the only decent One Piece action figures available on the market, Mattel released One Piece action figures also, but of course the sculpt was not up to par to Bandai's versions, and Mattel's action features was such an obstruction for the sculpt of the figures. Sad thing about bandai's line though is the release was only limited to select key characters, (surprise surprise! Every DBZ fan knows that) So long story short I couldn't complete my Mugiwara (strawhat) Pirate Crew. Had to get out of scale static figures of Nami and Robin just to make a decent looking Mugiwara crew...



Fast forward 6years later.. and Bankee releases Bandai's Styling figs, although static and not poseable, I immediately realized that these are the figures I was waiting for, decent enough placeholders for the other Strawhat pirates that I lack in my collection, great scale, and great sculpts to boot!




Action shots for the Strawhat pirates with the highest bounties:

"Black Leg" Sanji 77,000,000 beli bounty



Nico Robin 80,000,000 beli bounty (DF user)



Roronoa Zoro 120,000,000 beli bounty




SantoRyuu (3 Swordstyle)

Monkey D. Luffy 300,000,000 beli bounty (DF user)


Gomu Gomu pistol!!!


In Arabastan Garb with Arabastan Princess Nefertari Vivi (aka Miss Wednesday)



And an extra although not necessarily a Strawhat..

The center of the current manga storyline, Portgas D. Ace, Luffy's Brother and a Captain of the Whitebeard Pirates.


Fire Fist Ace



And to cap things up, the 8" Banpresto prize fig that was available before for P599.75 but it went on further sale for as low as P200!





TFL!